Franz Werner von Tamm was a German Baroque painter born in 1658 in Hamburg, who travelled to and worked in Italy.

According to Houbraken, who called him Joano Vernero Tam in a poem about the members of the Bentvueghels, he joined the Bent with the name "Dapper" and was a good flower painter.

His nickname was "Dapper" or "Aprêt". He was influenced by David de Coninck and became the teacher of Pietro Navarra. He was in Rome in the years 1685-1695 and is known for still lifes of flowers and hunting pieces. In 1702 he was in Passau and then he moved to Vienna.

He was trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta in Rome. He was invited to Vienna to be a court painter, and remained there until his death in 1724.

He attended high school up to the secondary level. He made friends with the painters Ernst von Bernuth, Ludwig Hugo Becker and Ernst von Raven. In 1850 he became a private student of the historian Josef Schex (1819-1894) from Wesel, who introduced him to oil painting. From 1851 to 1856 he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Charles Ferdinand's son (Antikensaal), in the painting class of Theodor Hildebrandt and finally in the master class of the academy director Wilhelm von Schadow. After completing his studies, he became a member of the Association of Dusseldorf Artists for Mutual Assistance and Help, whose first chairman he was from 1892 to 1904. In 1861 he married Bertha Havenith, a daughter of his former teacher Josef Schex, sister of the painter Hugo Havenith as well as sister-in-law of the painter Karl Litschauer, and settled in Düsseldorf. In 1894 he founded the Malkasten Archives. On the eve of his 83rd birthday, Bosch died of heart failure and was buried at the Nordfriedhof in Düsseldorf.

In an idealizing way, Bosch, who was a friend of the time with the painters Hubert Salentin, Friedrich Hiddemann, Christian Eduard Böttcher, Hermann Werner, Carl Thiel and others, took his themes from the bourgeois and rural life and tried to make feelings like joy and grief And the like. In addition, compositions were made according to the literature (Werther, Hermann and Dorothea, fairy tales of the brothers Grimm: Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood) as well as numerous portraits and many dog ​​shows. Bosch etchings and lithographs were created for portfolios and as single sheets. For numerous books, he created the text illustrations, including "The Chronicle of the Sperlingsgasse" by Wilhelm Raabe, which appeared in countless editions. Ernst Bosch showed his work mainly at exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Berlin, but also in Bremen, Hamburg, Munich or The Hague. In 1873 he was represented in the art exhibition of the Viennese world exhibition with the image "Wilddiebe" and was awarded a medal. In 1876, he received another award for his painting "Auf der Weide" in the art exhibition of the World Exposition in Philadelphia. An exhibition of his successive works took place in the Städtisches Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf in 1917.

Friedrich August von Kaulbach, German portraitist and historical painter born in 1850.He was the son of Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Kaulbach (1822-1903), the court painter at Hannover, and the great nephew of Wilhelm Kaulbach, another prominent member of the Kaulbach family of artists. He learned to paint from his father, and later was a student of August von Kreling at the arts and crafts school Nuremberg, the predecessor institution of the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg.He lived for a time in Paris. In 1886 he was appointed director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He was also a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. His daughter Hedda was married to the sculptor Toni Stadler, while his daughter Mathilde married in 1925 with the painter Max Beckmann.He married the famous violist Frida Scotta in 1897.He died in 1917.Wikipedia

The original portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (painted in 1839) was lent to the exhibition Winterhalter: Portraits de Dames du Second Empire, at Galerie Jacques Seligmann, in Paris, in 1928, by its then owner and descendant of the sitter, Comte de Mortemart (no 18). (It is presumed that the portrait remains by descent in the family.) Source

Hermann Fidel Winterhalter was a German painter born in 1808, younger brother of Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

His father, Fidel Winterhalter, made him follow a career as a painter in the footsteps of his older brother. Hermann Winterhalter was first trained as a lithographer and later went to study painting in Munich and Rome. He settled in Paris where he assisted his brother and exhibited at the Salon 1838-41, 1847 and 1869.

So close was Hermann Winterhalter to his brother that not only his work but also his personality is hard to disassociate from his most famous sibling. There was no professional rivalry or personal friction in the many years they worked together. Hermann was an immense support to Franz Xaver's successful international career, and took charge of the latter's studio in Paris while he was abroad. He lived independently and had his own personality and points of view. In the 1850s Hermann was more independent and developed a small portrait practice of his own. Among his works are Young Girl from Ariccia and the portrait of his Parisian patron Nicolas-Louis Planat de la Faye that is in the Louvre.

After the fall of the Second Empire, both brothers decided to retire in Baden. Franz Xaver died in 1873. Hermann survived his brother for almost twenty years, dying in Karlsruhe in 1891.

His father was a shoemaker in Windschläg. In 1845 the family settled near Beuren, today attached to Baden-Baden. In 1853 his father emigrated to the United States alone. The son meets the Dutch painter August Knip who introduces him to animal painting.

In 1861 arrived in Munich, met Ludwig Willroider and Anton Braith, and devoted himself to this kind of painting. He does not enroll in an academy. During his travels, he frequented the painters of the school of Düsseldorf and settled in this city in 1867. He spent the last ten years of his life in Pfaffendorf.

Jutz is a much appreciated painter of his time. Besides Germany, it was presented at the Universal Exhibition of 1867 in Paris and Australia.

The most represented subject by Jutz is poultry in the backyard. He paints groups precisely, with intense and striking colors. In addition, he sometimes painted other animals and landscapes of the Baden country.

Wilhelm Trübner, German realist painter of Wilhelm Leibl's circle born in 1851 in Heidelberg, who already visited the blog not long ago. Some of his best known works include a robust mastiff tempted by appetizing sausages. There are several versions of each of them, as we can see below, and their titles lucidly describe the tension of the moment: "Caesar in the Rubicon" and "Hail, Caesar, we who are about to die salute you!"

Franz Marc (Munich, 1880 - Braquis, near Verdun, 1916) was one of the main representatives of German Expressionism in painting. In one of the first posts of this series dedicated to the painting of dogs I already presented a selection of works of this artist founder of the artistic movement Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider). Now a second set with more works featuring dogs of various races. In addition to his works with that characteristic intensity of color, a couple of drawings.

"Love of motherhood and care, developed from the evolution to the preservation of the species, is always more absurd in our time. While the woman is devoted to the dog, the science of the human embryo begins." (Monika von Starck)

Monika von Starck, German contemporary artist who was known for her paintings in the style of Expressionism.

She is the daughter of the illustrator and graphic artist Heinrich Hußmann, her mother Simone was a painter.

She studied Philosophy and German Studies at the University of Cologne and free painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. According to her own statements, her most important teacher was the abstract painter Joseph Fassbender, who supported her ambitions of the figurative representation against the trend of the time. In 1964, she moved to the Berlin School of Fine Arts for a year to complete her studies in secondary school. From 1969 to 1973, she taught art at two Cologne Gymnasiums, and from 1978 to 1980 she taught painting and drawing at the Volkshochschule in Cologne. She has been a freelance artist since 1970.

She paints in the tradition of the expressionists such as George Grosz, Max Beckmann and Otto Dix. The main theme of her large-format oil paintings is always the human being. She wants to show "in what different ways people are exposed to their environment and how they try to protect themselves, how they try to cope with it or to escape it. The painter uses her own symbolic language and mixes the elements of different myths with her fantasies." (Wibke von Bonin)

Since 1966, Monika von Starck has been showing her work in numerous group and individual exhibitions at home and abroad. Her works can be found in private and public collections, for example in the Cologne Käthe-Kollwitz Museum, the Cologne City Museum, Museum of the Historical Center Wuppertal, and Municipal Collection Hannover-Langenhagen.

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